MN HF3856

Creates Minnesota Expanded Health Care Practices Act to authorize licensed health care practitioners to provide expanded and complementary or alternative health care treatments that have reasonable basis for benefit, do not pose greater risk than conventional treatment, and are provided with reasonable skill and safety.

Requires practitioners to disclose in writing the theoretical approach, practitioner's credentials, expected benefits, and significant risks of expanded health care practices, and obtain informed consent and written acknowledgment from patients prior to treatment.

Protects practitioners' licenses from revocation, suspension, or conditioning if they comply with the chapter and have recommended or utilized expanded health care practices, referred patients to such practitioners, or provided cancer treatments without unreasonable promises of cure.

Prohibits licensing boards from using expanded health care practice delays or choice of one treatment over another as evidence of harm in disciplinary proceedings, and establishes that competent evidence includes expert testimony, patient testimony, anecdotal evidence, research reports, case studies, and clinical experience.

Provides immunity from maltreatment of minors statutes when parents refuse chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation for a minor's cancer treatment in favor of expanded health care practices.